Word: accomplishments
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...Administration expect their reform plans to remove some 6 million people from the tax rolls. A husband and wife with two children would pay no taxes if they earned less than $13,100 in 1987, in contrast to $9,575 currently. The Ways and Means proposal would accomplish this partly by increasing the personal exemption from $1,080 to $2,000 for short-form filers...
Johnson is proof of what an astute businessman with a sense of black pride can accomplish. He dines occasionally at the White House and is an important contributor to such politicians as Chicago Mayor Harold Washington and Illinois Governor James Thompson. Yet Johnson has never been completely comfortable with his success. Says he: "I live with the knowledge that it's possible to fail, and I try so hard that...
...produce sound politics or successful policy in response to the ongoing crisis in Nicaragua. The White House and Capitol Hill have both reverberated with one-sided and unrealistic assessments of the challenge in Nicaragua, with deceptive and diversionary claims about what the U.S. should be trying to accomplish there and with unconvincing recipes for what to do. The result is an impasse that may come to a head this week, one from which the Sandinistas themselves may emerge the only winners...
...Letters from Iceland by W.H. Auden and memories of the Icelandic sagas, populated by heroes with unpronounceable names who made elegant speeches and went at one another with axes. More recent memories: news analyses assuring the public that Reagan and Gorbachev definitely are and definitely are not going to accomplish anything substantive at this presummit summit. Most recent memory: the underground Broadway disco in Reykjavík, an Icelandic rock group called Strax, led by a woman with her black hair done up to look like a crow in flight, singing about U.S. and Soviet journalists vying for scoops...
...crowning moment of Preston’s season was taking home first place at EIWAs. Preston was injured just before the tournament, and Weiss said what he was able to accomplish was amazing considering the setback...